xii, 372 pages : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-360)

Includes indexes

The producer's apology to the spectators -- The common inheritance -- Prologue: Laplace, Biot, and Poisson -- Act I. Workless dissipation: Fourier -- Act II. Dissipationless work: Carnot -- Distracting interlude: Clapeyron and Duhamel -- Act. III. Equivalence, conservation, interconvertibility: when and of what? -- Act IV. Internal energy: the first paper of Clausius. Entropy; the first paper of Rankine -- Districting interlude: Explosion of print -- Schismatic Act V. Antiplot in a dark and empty theatre: Reech's discovery of a too general theory, and his failure to reduce it -- Orthodox Act V. Clausius' second paper: absolute temperatures, irreversibility, and oracling -- Epilogue: Götterdämmerung

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